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• Marinus Anthonie de Bruin, Beusichem (Buren) (GL) († 1999)

• Arie Niemantsverdriet (74)
• Charles Werner Marie Joseph Gabriel Ghislain de Merode (89), Westerloo, Belgique
• Cornelis Brussen (68), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bertha Cornelia de Vette (91), Alkmaar
• Charles van Mérode (89), Westerloo
• Arend Cornelis Kosse (73), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Gerhardus Kruiper (87), Hellendoorn
• Aaltje Kramer (72)
• Allegonda Maria Antoinetta Mommers (76), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Driessen (71), Geldrop, North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1974 » Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach († 2015)
• 1974 » Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
• 1975 » Aleksandrs Koļinko, Latvian footballer
• 1975 » Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
• 1975 » Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 » Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 » Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1979 » Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 » Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1980 » Antonio Gates, American football player

• 1971 » Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1974 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
• 1980 » André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1982 » Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1982 » John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
10. David
11. Hendrik
12. Pieter
13. Dennis
14. Marcel
15. Cornelis
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Esther
4. Johanna
5. Sandra
6. Wendy
7. Cindy
8. Linda
9. Yvonne
10. Jennifer
11. Patricia
12. Anna
13. Bianca
14. Elisabeth
15. Marieke
16. Adriana

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
• January 17 » Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
• May 18 » Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
• July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• August 20 » Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• October 13 » Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
• November 14 » During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on June 18, 1977 was between 12.3 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.